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The clause allocates intellectual property rights over inputs and outputs to the customer, subject to a legal permissibility limit on output ownership.
Interpretive note: The qualifier 'to the extent permitted by law' limits output ownership but is preserved in the claim. The word 'rightfully' conditions ownership on the legitimacy of receipt and is also preserved.
The updated terms shift governance of conversation access and retention from end users to workspace administrators. Under the revised policy, workspace admins can now view, access, export, and delete any end user conversations within their workspace and control how long workspace data is retained. Additionally, OpenAI now reserves the right to retain deleted or unsaved conversations beyond the standard 30-day deletion window if retention is reasonably necessary to protect its services or any third party from harm, beyond prior language that limited retention extensions to legal requirements. Within an enterprise account, end users no longer have unilateral control over conversation visibility or deletion of their own conversations.
View change record →Removal of this explicit ownership provision may weaken customer claims to intellectual property rights over their inputs and model outputs.
View full change record →You retain all rights to what you submit to OpenAI's services and own the outputs you rightfully receive, subject to what the law permits.
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The clause allocates intellectual property rights over inputs and outputs to the customer, subject to a legal permissibility limit on output ownership.
You retain all rights to what you submit to OpenAI's services and own the outputs you rightfully receive, subject to what the law permits.
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